Used frequently in Anime to either recap past events or provide a back story for a character, either their origin story or their off-screen training of new attack. Sometime and entire episode/chapter would be a entire flashback.

The villain Transformers from the Beast Wars franchise, heavily featured in the Japanese Transformers anime (Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, Robots in Disguise) When Ultra Magnus asked the question "Are you autobot or decepticon?" a Predacon simply hissed and said "neither".